A number of domain names were sold at bulkregister.com, only to be re-released almost immediately onto the market and bought by other registrants using other Domain Registrars. BulkRegister admitted the problem was on their end, but has yet to release details on their plans to reimburse customers. [...] Continue reading →

Lucasfilm has sent a letter to the owner of tatooine.com, Steve Mount, demanding ownership of the domain name. Mount had been using the site in his business as a web designer, and is unsure what his next move will be. [...] Continue reading →

Some of the Webs most popular domain names were listed as ‘up for grabs’ for about an hour and a half on Friday. Names like yahoo.com and networksolutions.com were listed as not taken due to a glitch in Network Solution’s database. None of the names were, or even could have been, actually purchased. [...] Continue reading →

Network Solutions ‘lost control’ of several domain names over the weekend through various spoof emails requesting changes to domain name data. Network Solutions claims that they offer security options to avoid such attacks for free, but that it is on the part of the registrant to keep their accounts at a comfortable level of [...] Continue reading →

Virtual Internet will launch its sale of .it names (the Italian top-level domain) this month on the 15th. Names registrants are restricted to members of the European Union. IT companies are likely to take advantage of the newly available TLD for nice .com alternatives. [...] Continue reading →

The 42 year old publication, Teen Magazine, was alerted by one of its new editors that someone had registered teenmagazine.com and was using it as a porn site. Teen Magazine’s lawyers immediately set into action, and won a temporary restraining order against Blue Gravity Communications (the domain owner), ordering them to stop using the [...] Continue reading →

Network Solutions accepted approximately 800 erroneous domain registrations that contained a hyphen at either the beginning or end of the domain name. The error occurred because the software used when registering names was not correctly filtering out the errors and the actual domain name system wouldn’t be able to handle the registration data. Registrars who [...] Continue reading →